TEAR 2015 – Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research

The 10th TEAR workshop is organized in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2015), June 8-12, Stockholm, Sweden.

The international TEAR workshop series brings together Enterprise Architecture (EA) researchers from different research communities and provides a forum to present EA research results and to discuss future EA research directions.

The field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has gained considerable attention over the last of years. EA is important because organizations need to adapt increasingly fast to changing customer requirements and business goals. This need influences the entire chain of activities of an enterprise, from business processes to IT support. Moreover, a change in a particular part of the overall architecture may influence many other parts of the architecture. For example, when a new product is introduced, business processes for production, sales and after-sales need to be adapted. It might be necessary to change applications, or even adapt the IT infrastructure. Each of these fields will have its own (partial) architectures. To keep the enterprise architecture coherent and aligned with the business goals, the relations between these different architectures must be explicit, and a change should be carried through methodically in all architectures. In contrast to traditional architecture management approaches such as IT architecture, software architecture or IS architecture, EA explicitly incorporates “pure” business-related artifacts in addition to traditional IS/IT artifacts. For Enterprise Architecture the focus is on the overall enterprise and concerns its organization, its components, the relationship between components and principles governing its design and evolution.

Topics

Topics relevant for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:

Case studies on EA

Combining BPM and EA

Drivers and obstacles of EA dissemination

EA and e-government

EA and organizational theory

EA and system development

EA and capability-based planning

EA business cases

EA communication and marketing

EA for small and medium-sized companies

EA governance and integration into corporate/IT governance

EA reference models, meta models and frameworks

EA usage in corporate strategic planning

Enterprise modeling, EA and MDA

Evolution of an EA

Incorporation of knowledge management and software engineering in EA

Measurement, metrics, and maturity models for EA artifacts and processes

Methodologies and research theory for EA research

Processes and patterns for EA development, mastering, communication and enforcement

Papers should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to TEAR as described in the topics section. Papers submitted for consideration must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration.

We solicit two types of papers:

Full papers (12 pages) describing significant original research in the topics listed above, and